noun, masculine/kɛ̃.to/plural: quinteaux
a heap, pile, or stack, such as of sugar or hay
“Somme de poisson froys, 2 deniers; — Balle de mercerie, 4 deniers; — Tonneau de ballenne, 2 deniers; — Quinteau d'alemandes, 5 deniers; — Quinteau de sucre, 6 deniers; — Quinteau de canelle, 6 deniers;”
Emigrants from Perche brought the term to New France, and hence into Canadian and Louisiana French. Its pronunciation was "normalized" (to drop the [i̯], to match the pronunciation of other words ending in -eau) either by the Perche speakers when they spoke to non-Perche speakers, or by those other speakers after they borrowed the term.